Introduction
[in-truh-duhk-shuh n] /ˌɪn trəˈdʌk ʃən/
noun
1.
the act of or the state of being .
2.
a formal personal presentation of one person to another or others.
3.
a preliminary part, as of a book, musical composition, or the like, leading up to the main part.
4.
an elementary treatise:
an introduction to botany.
5.
an act or instance of inserting.
6.
something .
/ˌɪntrəˈdʌkʃən/
noun
1.
the act of introducing or fact of being introduced
2.
a presentation of one person to another or others
3.
a means of presenting a person to another person, group, etc, such as a letter of introduction or reference
4.
a preliminary part, as of a book, speech, etc
5.
(music)
6.
something that has been or is introduced, esp something that is not native to an area, country, etc
7.
a basic or elementary work of instruction, reference, etc
8.
(logic) (qualified by the name of an operation) a syntactic rule specifying the conditions under which a formula or statement containing the specified operator may be derived from others: conjunction-introduction, negation-introduction
n.
late 14c., “act of bringing into existence,” from Old French introduccion and directly from Latin introductionem (nominative introductio) “a leading in,” noun of action from past participle stem of introducere “to lead in, bring in, to introduce,” from intro- “inward, to the inside” (see intro-) + ducere “to lead” (see duke (n.)). Meaning “initial instruction in a subject; an introductory statement” is mid-15c. The sense of “formal presentation of one person to another” is from 1711.
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